Utah Code 58-40-502. Unprofessional conduct
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“Unprofessional conduct” includes:
| (1) | failing to supervise a therapeutic recreation technician, a student intern, or a temporarily licensed therapeutic recreation specialist when required to do so under this chapter or by rule; |
| (i) | assessing a person's need for recreational therapy treatment or intervention; |
| (ii) | developing an individualized treatment or intervention plan that identifies goals, objectives, and treatment strategies for a person; |
| (iii) | implementing the individualized treatment or intervention plan; |
| (iv) | documenting a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan, including documenting the overall outcome of the person's treatment; |
| (v) | regularly evaluating a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan and modifying the plan when appropriate; |
| (vi) | in collaboration with a person, the person's family, or other team members, developing a discharge or transition plan for the person; |
| (vii) | serving as a resource to help a person find recreation opportunities that will promote the person's physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual health and well-being; and |
| (viii) | organizing and managing recreational services according to a written plan of operation as defined by rule of the division. See Utah Code 58-40-102 |
| (2) | failing to keep or maintain a recreational therapy treatment plan; |
| (3) | failing to safeguard a person‘s right to privacy as to the person’s identity, condition, diagnosis, personal effects, or other matters about which the licensee is privileged to know from providing recreational therapy services; |
| (4) | failing to report to the division the unsafe, unethical, or illegal practice of a person who is providing recreational therapy services; |
| (5) | making sexual advances to a patient, requesting sexual intercourse or sexual favors from a patient, or engaging in other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature in the presence of a patient; |
| (6) | exploiting a patient or former patient for personal gain; |
| (7) | possessing or dispensing illegal or non-prescribed prescription drugs or medications; |
| (8) | using or being under the influence of alcohol or an illegal or non-prescribed prescription drug or medication while performing recreational therapy services; and |
| (9) | other actions as defined by division rule. |
Enacted by Chapter 82, 2012 General Session